Re: release policy

From:

Gary V. Vaughan

Subject:

Re: release policy

Date:

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:35:46 +0100

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Hi Bob, Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:49:38PM CEST:
>>On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>>>Development libtool offers few user-visible features where a new
>>>>feature is defined by new functionality. Most new "features" are
>>>>internal design changes.
>
>>>- no stupid C++/Fortran 77 checks for C-only users (plus several
>>>hundred KB smaller configure scripts)
>>
>>For example, the first item you list is actually a "bug fix" since it
>>was not a problem in the 1.4.X releases. The bug was added in 1.5.
>
> Oops. I did not know that, I never used 1.4 in practice. :-/
> I retract that then partly, I did not know 1.5 had regressions over 1.4.
> I never meant to "sell" regression fixes as new features.
Bob, that's really not fair! The reason 1.4 didn't do extra C++ and
f77 tests was because it only supported C!!! The multi-language-branch
merge was the driver for bumping the release number to 1.5 -- a mere
2.5 years ago.
Cheers,
Gary.
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